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When I had time to kill between meetings in Tokyo, I dropped by a major bookstore near the Tokyo Station. In the computing book area, I found a special section on cloud computing. Like in the U.S., cloud computing is getting a lot of attention in Japan. The premise of cloud computing is easy access ...
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As 2009 draws to a close, I would like to ponder each element in the title of this blog. The information sources are my blog posts and others’. I will talk about data center market trends in this blog and treat the rest of the subjects later.
Regulatory pressure on data centers
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Webcast: Using Claims to Simplify and Secure User Access to Applications and Services
Kim Cameron, Distinguised Engineer and Chief Architect of Identity in the Connected Systems Division at Microsoft, updates his highly rated session from RSA Conference 2009.
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Because I cover Japan as well as the U.S., I often talk with Japanese data center operators about their interests. In these Internet times, some U.S. news is delivered to Japan instantly, but they want to talk to real data center operators and experts to find out how things are in their day-to-day o...
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In recent data center conferences, one thing that attracted my attention was cloud computing. For most people on the facilities side of the data center, cloud computing is pretty new. One keynote speaker emphasized the importance of cloud computing, and data center operators should take notice of it...
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I had an opportunity to meet with Victoria Livschitz, CEO of Grid Dynamics.
When I do research on the cloud computing space, I see a lot of cloud computing providers. However, I think you cannot use the services without some expertise. Livschitz was OK with my saying that Grid Dynamics is a system i...
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SOX. HIPPA. GLBA. Basel II. NERC. Each mandate carries a unique set of challenges for compliance – especially when it comes to access control and data management. As IT management looks for better answers, the advantages of cloud-based, two-factor authentication continue to gain favor. This pa...
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Recently, I had an opportunity to meet with Richard Dym, CMO, and Koss Yokota, VP Asia Pacific Business Development, at OpSource’s headquarters in Santa Clara, California, about their brand-new offering, OpSource Cloud.
Their web page is the best source of information about who they are and wh...
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Andy Parham, CEO of Bick Group, delivered the keynote speech at Data Center World.
In short, he said that a tremendous number and extent of changes are coming to the data center segment. To emphasize his point, Parham used two examples. The first was alternating current’s takeover of the power...
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On Wednesday, September 30, we attended the first CloudCamp in Los Angeles – the 44th CloudCamp. Dave Nielsen and a team of 6 volunteers organized the unconference in a record 2 weeks. It was well-attended with most of the 224 registrants showing up and filling the meeting rooms of the Microsoft o...
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Combine the corporate extranet with emerging Web 2.0 social media technologies, and you get whole new way of collaborating and streamlining business processes that transcends organizational boundaries. Online communities, social networks and global sharing of rich media communities are just a few of...
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This paper makes the case for implementing greater security for data and applications using two-factor authentication and demonstrates how a cloud-based solution for two-factor authentication delivers a high level of security with minimal user impact and is a proven way to protect against unauthoriz...
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Are all clouds equal?
The UK’s SaaS “expert” Phil Wainewright, @philww, points to another online survey to make the claim that you are less safe, data wise, with a cloud provider, than you are with servers on premises. Not so fast, says Chris Hoff. When I asked Chris to blog on...
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A couple weeks ago I spoke at a users group about cloud computing. Primarily the discussion focused on IaaS (Amazon Web Services, GoGrid, etc) and PaaS (Windows Azure, Google App Engine, etc). I have spoken on this subject many times and it is interesting how every crowd focuses on a different issue...
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Why is it so hard to understand that cloud computing cannot exist without physical data centers somewhere? Maybe I am different, but I would feel more comfortable knowing my computing is being handled in a real building and by a set of IT gears run by ample power and cooling. If someone told me not ...
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